Miranda Sings is a fictional character created on the Internet in 2008 and portrayed by American comedian, actress, singer and YouTube personality Colleen Ballinger.[1] Ballinger displays videos of the comically talentless, egotistical, misguided and quirky character on her YouTube channel. In these videos, the eccentric, narcissistic, yet endearing character sings and dances badly, gives inept tutorials, recounts her daily activities, discusses current events that she often misunderstands, collaborates with other YouTubers, and rants about her critics, reading examples of hate mail directed at the character on social media; she responds to them with her catchphrase: Haters Back Off!.[2][3]